Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-02-18

'297, $50, 357 and 256 in the corresponding
weeks of 1856, 'S5, 'S4 and 'S3, respectively.
In the Illinois senate the Governor pre-,
sented a joint resolution to the senate from
the Ohio legislature inviting Illinois to par.
hclpate with Ohio in the centennial cele-
bration of the settlement of Northwest Ter.
ritory.
A wind and rain storm at Wheeling, w.
Va, on the 18th unroofed a church, among
other damage done; a hotel at Moundsville
was also unroofed and at Ben Wood a school
building was served the same way and
many roofs and chimnies injured.
Circulars have been issued at the navy
department giving specifications and pre-.
scribing tests for the gun forgings and
steel plates for the armament of monitors
and new steel cruisers. The circulars nave
been sent to all prominent steel manufac-
turers in the country.
The President has allowed the act appro-
priating 100000 ayear to provide arms and
equipments for the militia to become a law
without his signature. The constitutional
limitation of ten days within which he
should have acted on the bill expired on
Saturday. His failure to sign the bill is re-
garded as an oversight, as he was not
known to object to any of its provisions.
Insome portions of the east ice gorges
and water floods are doing some damage,
but nothing very serious, though in some
places cellars and easements have been
flooded. At New York on the 10th, the
British steamer Wells City, from Bristol,
was struck and sunk by an immense ice
flow in the Hudson river. The officers aud
crew were rescued. The vessel was valued
at s15O,GM and her cargo, principally tin
roofing and petroleum, at $4,000 Both
were fully insured.
r. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review
of trade say: The stock market has
been negatively strong, and grain and OF
markets positively weak. Large sales of
stocks have caused no great decline.
Traders who bought when Europe was in a
panic do not seem anxious to hold. Wheat
having been lifted by false or mistaken
rumors, collapses when their untruth is
perceived. b fall in price has been about
2& cents. Corn and oats fell l cent each,
while cotton and coffee are unchanged.
A bridge on the c. & P. R. R., six miles
from the Union dept at Cleveland, Ohio,
was so weakened by the great food OF
water in the creek it spanned, that it gave
way at / q. NJ, OF the 18th, as a passenger
train ran upon it. Owing to tue flood the
train was run slowly, but had it been at it's
usual speed a terrible calamity would have
embankment, but the smoker caught On
the abutments and the passenger cars were
uninjured. The baggagemaster wos the
only person hurt, and his injuries are inter-
nal and serious.
The Western National Bank of New York
City, was organized on the 9th, with the
capital of 49, o 900. The officers are Daniel
Manning, president; Conrad N. Jordan,
vice-president: Ferdinand Blankinhern,
cashier. Mr.. Blankinhorn is at present as
sistant cashier of the Third National Bank
of New York. Among the stockholders are
S SooFsy ce pni5en' ealM ". 1. e seott, ' of Pa mo-
s%ylvania; Washington Mclean and John
r. Mclean, of Cincinnati; Assistant United
States Treasurer Canda, OF New York.
Louisville, in Stark county, Ohio, of
which Canton is the capital city, was struck
by a cyclone on the morning of the 18th.
Fences and trees were moved down like
reeds, houses unroofed, shutters and gates
torn from their hinges, window glass broken
and chimneys blown down. The slate roof
of the large Catholic church was badly
shattered, and the roof of the convent
school adjoining was lifted off in an instant.
Two minutes of the roar and crash and the
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fight. In that brief interval people
crouched to the floors Of their dwellings and
the ground in terror, while many were seen
kneeling in prayer. The wind. blew with
great fury at Canton city, but no material
damage occurred.
The sensational disappearance of book
keeper Schofeld, at Winnipeg, Saturday
night, the supposition that he was murder
ed and the arrest Of q man named Miller
for the deed or knowledge of it,, had a &C.
que1 Monday in the capture of Schofield
himself at Minneapolis Monday, wearing q
lumberman's suit over his customary gar
ments. Bchoield was taken in on q tele-
gram from Winnipeg IN the theory that he
wal a flying assassin, but he convinced the
police that he was the missing man, and
had gone away on account of domestic
trouble, and to cover his fight he told this
story: II vent to the office Saturday
evening and slaughtered two chickens, the
blood Of which / scattered over the furniture.
I afterward took them to the river and
dropped them through the ice." He. had
with him $2,O15, but said it was all his W
but $500, which belonged to the firm en-
p1oying him. he was released from custody,
and dropped his lumberman's suit, and dis
appeared. Later q telegram came from
officer could arrive, doubts being enter
tanned there about his being schodeld, but
he had shown the officers letters and
that proved him to be the man he said he
was.